Subhro Roy
Contact
Information
3333 Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin Avenue,
Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Mobile: +1-(217)-402-4760
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW : http://sroy9.web.engr.illinois.edu
Education
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2012 – present
Thesis: Towards a General Math Word Problem Solver
Advisor: Prof. Dan Roth
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, 2012
GPA: 9.52/10.0 (Ranked 2nd in the department)
Research
Interests
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Internships
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Seattle
Supervisor : Mark Hopkins
Open domain algebra word problem solver
Publications
May-Jul 2016
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Supervisor : Scott Yih, Ming-wei Chang, Chris Meek
Relation extraction for knowledge base completion.
May-Aug 2015
Google, Mountain View, USA
Supervisor : J.D. Chen
Understanding reviews for apps.
May-Aug 2014
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Supervisor : Prof. Angelika Steger, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Neural structure of the brain, to learn relations.
May-July 2011
Unit Dependency Graph and its Application to Arithmetic Word Problem Solving
Subhro Roy and Dan Roth
AAAI 2017
Equation Parsing: Mapping Sentences to Grounded Equations
Subhro Roy, Shyam Upadhyay and Dan Roth
EMNLP 2016
Approximating the Maximum Overlap of Polygons under Translation∗∗
Sariel Har-Peled and Subhro Roy
Algorithmica 2016
MAWPS: A Math Word Problem Repository
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski∗ , Subhro Roy∗ , Aida Amini, Nate Kushman and Hannaneh Hajishirzi
NAACL 2016
Solving General Arithmetic Word Problems
Subhro Roy and Dan Roth
EMNLP 2015
Reasoning about Quantities in Natural Language
Subhro Roy, Tim Vieira and Dan Roth
TACL 2015
Approximating the Maximum Overlap of Polygons under Translation∗∗
Sariel Har-Peled and Subhro Roy
ESA 2014
Learning for Mining Outlier Subgraphs from Network Datasets
M. Gupta, A. Mallya, S. Roy, J. Cho, J. Han
SDM 2014
∗
denotes equal contribution
denotes author names in alphabetical order
∗∗
Workshops
and
Demos
Illinois Math Solver: Math Reasoning on the Web
Subhro Roy and Dan Roth
NAACL Demonstrations 2016
Illinois CCG TAC 2015 Event Nugget, Entity Discovery And Linking, and Slot Filler Validation
Systems
M. Sammons, H. Peng, Y. Song, S. Upadhyay, C. Tsai, P. Reddy, S. Roy, D. Roth
TAC 2015
The University Of Illinois Submission to the WMT 2015 Shared Translation Task
L. Schwartz, B. Bryce, C. Geigle, S. Massung, Y. Liu, H. Peng, V. Raja, S. Roy, S. Upadhyay
Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation 2015
Illinois Cognitive Computation Group UI-CCG TAC 2013 Entity Linking and Slot Filler Validation
Systems
X. Cheng, B. Chen, R. Samdani, K. Chang, Z. Fei, M. Sammons, J. Wieting, S. Roy, C. Wang, D.
Roth
TAC 2013
Packages
Developed
• Illinois Quantifier - detects and normalizes phrases containing quantifiable information in text,
and normalizes them to a standard form.
• Illinois Math Solver - automatically solves arithmetic word problems.
Honours and
Awards
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, UIUC, Fall 2013.
• Felicitated by the Governor of West Bengal for securing 2nd position in the state in ICSE
2006, and 5th position in ISC 2008 Examination.
• Selected among top 30 students from the state of West Bengal in Indian National Mathematical Olympiad, 2007
• Selected among top 1% students from all over India in Indian National Chemistry Olympiad,
2007
• Secured 2nd position in Yahoo HackU contest. Developed an online Railway Reservation
system for Indian Railways
• Recipient of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Scholarship, awarded by
the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2006
• Recipient of O.P.Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship (OPJEMS), 2010
• Recipient of Goralal Syngal Memorial Scholarship, IIT Kharagpur
Teaching
Experience
• Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Algorithms, Fall 2013
• Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Algorithms, Spring 2013
• Teaching Assistant for Ethical and Professional Issues in CS course, Fall 2012
Service
Reviewer : ICML 2015, TACL 2015, AAAI 2016, IJCAI 2016